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Rod Raglin

Forest

Synopsis

Matthew and Raminder are young, idealistic and in love.
As soon as they can they plan to leave behind the small town and small minds of Pitt Landing. They will embrace life and experience the world, maybe even change it.
Man plans, God laughs.
Raminder’s father has a stroke and her commitment to her family means she must postpone her plans and stay in Pitt Lake.
It’s just the opposite for Matt. A family tragedy leaves irreconcilable differences between him and his father and forces him to leave.
They promise to reunite, but life happens.
Twelve years later, Matt is an acclaimed war correspondent. He’s seen it all and it’s left him with post-traumatic stress, a gastric ulcer, and an enlarged liver. He’s never been back to Pitt Landing though it’s been the memory of Raminder and their love that has more than once kept him sane.
He’s at his desk in the newsroom, recuperating from his last assignment and current hangover and reading a letter from his father, the first contact they’ve had in over a decade. It talks about a legendary lost gold mine, a map leading to it, and proof in a safety deposit box back in Pitt Lake. He’s sent it to Matt in case something happens to him and cautions his son to keep it a secret.
Matt is about to dismiss the letter when the telephone rings. It’s Raminder telling him his father has disappeared somewhere in the wilderness that surrounds Pitt Lake.
Lost gold, lost love and lost hope compels Matt to return home. Will he find any of these or does something else await him?

Author Biography

Rod Raglin is a journalist, photographer, keen environmentalist and author of nine self-published novels and two plays. He lives on the west coast of Canada.
My latest novel, The BIG PICTURE - A Camera, A Young Woman, An Uncompromising Ethic is self-published and now available on Amazon at
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00LTXGD58
I have also e-published three novels; Spirit Bear, Eagleridge Bluffs, and Not Wonder More – Mad Maggie and the Mystery of the Ancients. These works comprise the stand alone series entitled ECO- WARRIORS.
The stories are contemporary romances with subplots that address important environmental issues.
Visit my publisher’s website for excerpts from, and buy links to, these three novels,
http://devinedestinies.com
I blog about ‘Writing – the experience’ at
http://rodraglin.wordpress.com/
Read my current work(s) in progress at
http://wattpad.com/RodRaglin

Author Insight

Loving being loved

What's the best part of being in love? Okay, but after that? For Matt it, was being loved. Being the most special person in the universe to someone is empowering. Is unrequited love really love? Can you actually be in love without it being reciprocated? What was, or is, the best part of being in love for you?

Book Excerpt

Forest

Matt didn’t know when he began to love Rami. One day she was all elbows and knees, the awkward nuisance he and Parm tried to exclude in their adventures, the next her flowing hips and ripe breasts made her someone he tried to find reasons to seek out. Overnight it seemed she went from being tolerated to being lusted after. The best part of this transition was her feeling for Matt never changed. Her childhood crush blossomed into a woman’s love.

For Matt, being loved was almost as wonderful as loving. Knowing that you were the most special person in the world to another was empowering. It made him better, stronger, smarter more than he ever thought he could be.

Everything was brighter and better when she was in his presence. He felt conspicuously happy like a universal truth had been revealed to him. He bubbled with joy, his face aching from a continuous smile.

To see her was to want to touch her. To touch her was to want to possess her, right then, right there. He wanted to know her body more intimately than she knew it herself, than anyone else would ever know it. This was their benchmark relationship from which all others would be judged and found lacking.